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Rob,as I recall, iSeries caught alot of shit from IBM internal for out doing pSeries, xSeries and zSeries at that show as well...
Interesting what marketing can do when you really want to sell something...
Don in DC On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Anyone remember how the other vendors were upset when IBM gave away a car at LotusSphere years ago at their AS/400 booth? Crowds packed around the booth. The lines literally cut off access to the other hardware vendor booths. Grievances filed from these other vendors, etc. (But at least they did give the car away.) The advertising at LotusSphere, airports, etc at that time was intense for the AS/400. They sold AS/400's to run Domino like hotcakes. Local IBM sales rep (remember them?) said that he was walking into accounts that he didn't even know had AS/400's because Domino was pushing iron so fast. Lotus Notes advertising was so intense that my teenage daughter was literally awestruck that I used Notes. Rob Berendt -- Group Dekko Services, LLC Dept 01.073 PO Box 2000 Dock 108 6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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